St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
FEMININE sUPERsTIrIoNs.
Some Noteworthy Illustrations

FEMININE SUPERSTITIONS.
Some Noteworthy Illustrations
Queer Signs and POrtents.
San Francisco Post.
Noticed neat, understanding young
lady pushing her way along in the
crowd on Kearny street the other day,
and was surprised to see so much spirit
manifested by girl of her dainty APP
pearance. When she met several ladies
she would crowd closely to the street
edge or the wall, but when men came
along she marched boldly between them.
Calling the attention of another lady to
her strange manner, she said:
''Oh, | always do that, too. | under
stand it; she's SuperStitiouS."
''How is that?" asked.
''Well, you see, it brings good luck to
separate men, when you meet them, but
nothing breeds misfortune so surely as
to divide two women ON the street."
looked to see if she were testing, but
saw at once that ajudge could not be
more serious.
''And do you believe that nonsense?"
/ asked.
''Why, s'pose its foolish" she an
swered. ''but l know if l ever do it
something happens. Now, just yeSter-
ashamed to turn out, and we went
right between two women, and at din
ner swallowed to0thpick, and came
near choking to DEATH
"But you didn't die?" I suggested.
''No, but was awfully scared
That evening / went to a party and
tried to find out the pet superstition of
each girl / danced with. And they all
have them. One wouldn't gounder
leaning ladder. another would be sure
of becoming i'll if she saw the moon over
her left shoulder, another would notread
an epitaph for fear of losing her memory.
howl any time by taking Off her shoe
and splitting in it. In drawing her
kerchief from her bosom narrow slip
. of paper fluttered to the ground, on
which were some hieroglyphics.. "Oh,
my charmn she exclaimed. supposed
she had lost an article of jeweIry, and
was searching about, for it when she
seized upon the Scrapofpaper as though
It were deed to Sam Diego corner lot.
My curiosity was aroused, and she eX-.
planned that it was charm assuring
success in undertakings, purchased by
her alta great price from an Egyptian
possession alone amounted to nothing,
but il must be put into the pocket or in
the bosom of dress during the recital
oflanyEgyptian verse: If one failed to
remember that, however, the Lords
prayer might be substituted. = n =. ~
In the midStO of an enhancing waltz
with one lady she suddenly paused and
pressed her hand spasm0dically to her
upper lips - .-'-si ~ "a. ass
lF..What is it9'I asked.
~ was so afraid should sneeze," she
remarked. II wouldn' tforany thing to-
night" ~ -. :. =. =. . a.; = -: ~.
"Oh, it's Friday, and 'SneeZe on Fri
comes true, too, If ever do forget. Did
you never hear the rhyme
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger;
On Tuesday for a stranger, H-
On Wednesday for a letter, - ~
On Thursday for something better, ~
On Friday for your sorrow,
On Saturday, company tomorrow.
81 always try to Sneeze On Saturday."
she added, naively. -.
have taken notes since then, and I
find there is not one of the sweet Great
ureS that has not her pet SuperStitiOuS
within. l have a little friend on Van
Ness avenue who would go to church
with her sealskin jacket wrong side out,
if by any improbability she happened to
get it on that way, rather than incur the
bad luck to 0vertake her by taking it off
to change it. know a girl on Four
teenth street, in Oakland, who becomes
quite radiant when her dreSsmaker
is obliged to rip "a seam she
has just Sewed, as she is sure she will
live to wear the garment out. Iremem-
Der visiting ranch where bees were
kept and the hostess telling me the
honey was failure that year ON account
of their neglecting to-, rap on the bee
houses to tell the occupants that her
father had died. He died very sud
denly" she said, pathetically, land in
the surprise and hurry and all we forgot
all about it until daylight, and it was
too late then, for he'd been dead four
hours, and the bees must be told within
the hour or you'll lose 'em all. and sure
enough we did,
In Cincinnati beautiful young sales
woman in dry goods house went fear
leSSly into the family of wealthy
banker and nursed three adults through
siege of smallpox, although she had
never had the disease, because there
was a superstition in her family that
hours under the planet Uranus should
never lose their beauty while they lived.
She took the large sum of money
she thus earned, for the banker
was grateful and lavish, and
with it she and her brother
went to Kansas City, where they in
vested it in real estate, made money in
theiventure, came out here, and to-day
are among our well tO-do citizens. In
that case superstition paid better than
in the instance of the Jealous brides
maid who recently threw rice at the
carriage containing the bridal couple in
st. Louis, and wounded the bride in the
eyes, so that she had to keep bandageS
ON them for forty eight hours.
Actresses are said to have their little
yagaries in this line. like the rest of
theinseX. While Adelaide Nelson was
playing Juliet in Haverly's theater she
broke her dressing glass in the green
room. Another was brought and the
lady who played the Nurse broke that,
while the Romeo of the company
stepped on a small handglaSs and broke
it. II wonder which of US will go first"
said adelaide, pale to her lips; s'fOr you
know the breaking of mirror means
sure death" And an actress who was
present that night looked grave as she
told It to me. t'Of COURSE" she added,
tsaS general thing one doesn't believe
muchi in it, but it was strange that Neil
SON Romeo and the Nurse were all
dead inside of eight months"
MERRIAM GTRT,ST IN ENGV AMI